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KMID : 0877120230360020049
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Journal of Korean Medical History
2023 Volume.36 No. 2 p.49 ~ p.59
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A Study on the Identity Formation of Korean Medicine in the 1920s: Focusing on the publication of Dongseo uihak youi
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Kim Hyun-Koo
Ahn Sang-Woo
Kim Nam-Il
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Abstract
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This paper describes the transformation of the knowledge system of Korean medicine in the early 20th-century colonial context of the 1920s in terms of ‘identity formation’. At the time, newly introduced Western medicine was the dominant form of medical knowledge due to strong support from the colonial government but had did not enjoy popular support from the general public especially when compared to Korean medicine. Furthermore, the Japanese colonial government needed to utilize Korean medicine practitioners’ labor due to a serious shortage of Western medicine doctors. In this context, Dongseo uihak youi (Essentials of Eastern and Western Medicines) provides an overview of the role of Korean medicine practitioners in the colonial healthcare system of the time. The book contains a figure of a ‘modern’ Korean medicine practitioner working within a healthcare system influenced by colonial modernity. The association of Korean medicine doctors at that time not only published Dongseo uihak youi but also attempted to establish a school specializing in both Eastern and Western medicines or integrated Korean medicine, which would produce “the Chos?n doctors” (Chos?n ?isa) on a par with doctors trained in Western medicine. Although their attempts did not materialized, they provide a clue as to how and in what direction Korean medicine pursued its identity in the 1920s.
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KEYWORD
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Japanese colonial period, integration of Eastern and Western medicines, identity formation, Choson doctors, coloniality, modernity
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